Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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Busy cleaning for tomorrow night – we were supposed to get snow, but it now looks like that system is staying south of us – and they need it. We’ll get ours, I’m sure, just not for Christmas. Thought I’d post a recipe for you before I check out for the weekend. From my blog:

I’m prepping the traditional (well, traditional because this is what my Christmas Eve guests always want) Spinach Lasagna and Crusty Bread. But, the day after Christmas, I’m hosting another dinner party and making Chicken Parmesan. I’ll post that recipe once  I have photos.

I saw a recipe for these rolls and decided to give them a try. I thought they would be a fun change and go well with the Chicken Parm. I made a few significant changes to the first batch and they turned out delicious. Definitely a bit more work than the crusty bread loaves, but in the end, worth the work.

Garlic Pull Apart Rolls

  • 3½ to 4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
  • 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  • 1 package Instant Yeast
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • ½ cup milk
  • ½ water
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 1 large egg, at room temperature
  • Butter and garlic for brushing on rolls

Mixing bowl, mixer, springform pan

In a large mixing bowl, combine 3 cups of flour, sugar, instant yeast, garlic powder and salt.

Place the milk, water, and butter in a microwave safe bowl and heat until very warm (120° to 130°F). Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients and beat for 2 minutes at medium speed with an electric mixer, scraping bowl occasionally.

Add the egg and an additional ½ cup of the flour. Beat for 2 minutes at high speed. Stir in enough remaining flour (up to ½ cup) to make a soft dough.

Knead with the dough hook for 2 minutes on medium speed or by hand on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes.

Cover; let rest 10 minutes

Prepare a 9-inch springform pan by greasing with butter and adding a circle of parchment paper* on the bottom. Place a 4-ounce ramekin in the center of the pan and grease with butter.

Divide the dough into golf-ball sized balls. Arrange in rows ¼ inch apart in the prepared pan, allowing room to expand.

NOTE: See photos, I had a lot of extra dough, so once I prepped around the ramekin, I removed the bowl and added the remaining dough and once they baked, popped them out and added the butter filled bowl

Cover and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes or until doubled in size.

Once rolls have risen, preheat the oven to 400°F. Bake the rolls for 13 to 15 minutes or until golden brown and 200 degrees F in the center. Brush with garlic butter and serve warm with whipped garlic butter.

* I skipped the parchment and used corn meal sprinkled on the bottom.

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Here’s a bonus Scout saying Happy Holidays! (Actually, she’s saying “I was promised cheese”). The other two were being difficult and refused photos. Evening Open Thread: Recipes and Puppies

Santa Scout

I finally got them to settle down enough…but there wasn’t going to be a group photo this year.

Evening Open Thread: Recipes and Puppies 2

Trixiedeer

And she always looks like that when I take her photo, antlers or not…clearly not a fan of paparazzi

 

Evening Open Thread: Recipes and Puppies 1

Dapper Jasper

And yes, Momsense, that is one of the scarves you made for the ducks. 😁

This is an open thread

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48Comments

  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    Jasper being dapper in a duck scarf makes me happy.

    Back in the Tri-cities for Christmas. Wow that flight is short on a jet!

    EDIT: if you know you know…

  3. 3.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    Public service announcement:  “rose gold” sanding sugar is not worth buying.  Know what color “rose gold” sanding sugar turns out to be on the cookies? Tinted beige.  Know what color sugar cookies are? Beige.  Know what visual effect happens when you use “rose gold” sanding sugar on beige sugar cookies?  Absolutely nothing that you couldn’t get by just sprinkling perfectly ordinary supermarket cane sugar on them.

    just buy darkly colored sanding sugar, or, better yet if you have the kitchen setup and the time, buy gel food coloring and color your own sugar.

    Also, it’s still Festivus, isn’t it? so this is my grievance to air today.

  4. 4.

    wmd

    I just made Panetonne dough for the first time. Recipe calls for it to “rise” in refrigerator overnight before adding fruit. Should have 2 smallish ones baked tomorrow.

    Want to bake some traditional holiday cookies (pfeffernusse and shortbread) my maternal grandma always made, will do that in morning to warm up the kitchen for the real second rising of the bread dough. Probably making cookie dough this afternoon, as it benefits from resting in refrigerator too.

  5. 5.

    TaMara

    @schrodingers_cat: I have a relatively inexpensive Nordicware that works great. Doesn’t leak, cleans up easily.  I used to have one that had a flat bottom and a bundt-type bottom. I liked that one, too, but it leaked pretty badly after a year or so…if I could find a brand name one like that I might buy another one.

  6. 6.

    cope

    I don’t have the recipe at hand but my child bride just made a recipe for chocolate wafers. This was in response to discovering that Nabisco has discontinued making them. Since icebox cakes are a big thing in my extended family, this seemed a more reasonable alternative to purchasing them on eBay for multiple hundreds of dollars for a single box (gack!).

    This particular recipe is pretty damn close.

  7. 7.

    schrodingers_cat

    @TaMara: I have one with a bundt type bottom that I got in a moving sale from a German woman who was leaving the country. It is pretty awesome. Its a well known German brand whose name escapes me right now. I need one with a flat bottom. I have Nordic ware cookie sheets in several sizes that I love. So Nordic ware it is

    Thanks for the rec.

  8. 8.

    Phylllis

    There was mention in the (I think) TBogg unit thread about homemade Baileys-this popped up in my FB feed:

    Homemade Baileys for Christmas gifts! It’s 1 tsp cocoa powder, 1 cup heavy whipping cream, 1 cup of whiskey and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and one 14 ounces can of sweetened condensed milk.

  9. 9.

    Alison Rose

    OT question for the hive mind: Should you read A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

    Background: We always celebrated Christmas, in a non-Jesusy way, when I was growing up, because my Dad wasn’t Jewish nor religious in any way. (Sidenote: It still hurts to use the past tense for him.) And while I watched Mickey’s Christmas Carol a thousand times, I never read the original story. But I love Dickens and have a semi-firm goal of reading all of his novels and novellas. (I’m currently at 9 out of 21.) So I had the idea to read it this year, but then I was like…it begins on Christmas Eve, but it ends on Christmas Day, so when should I read it???

    I welcome your feedback.

  10. 10.

    TaMara

    @schrodingers_cat: I loved my old one, because the bottoms were interchangeable – bundt or flat. Took up less space in the cupboards. But I may just settle for a separate bundt one when I get around to it.  Because sometimes you need a flat bottomed and sometimes you just need a bundt. 🤣

  15. 15.

    Scamp Dog

    I haven’t finished writing up the final version, but I’ve re-created my paternal grandmother’s cinnamon roll recipe. The final innovation that got it there was using shortening in the dough instead of butter. I got the super-soft, unrollable rolls that she made! My brother agreed that I have it down, so it’s official. :)

  16. 16.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @Alison Rose: Christmas used to be a twelve-day afffair; advertisers and the pressure of consumerism have replaced the twelve days with a countdown.

    Dicken’s story itself begins on Christmas Eve, which is when Marley shows up; but the other ghosts visit over the next three days.  so pick whichever day you like!

  19. 19.

    Layer8Problem

    @Alison Rose: Put me down for Christmas Eve. That’s when the story begins and its ending gets you to a happier, better, more hopeful place for everyone, and the right frame of mind for a long winter’s nap, and the right spirit for the following day.

  20. 20.

    Barbara

    Per the earlier discussion about ill-chosen gifts, I received a gift from my sister today — the hard copy version of the exact same book I am currently reading on my e-reader. No prior discussion about it or the author. I’m laughing at how we are so different and yet so alike.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    Those rolls look great, TaMara!

    Tomorrow night I’m making relatively recent all-family fave Chicken Alfredo w/ Spinach, plus a bunch of other stuff (including “Herbaceous Cheesy Bites”, a frozen app from Trader Joe’s that Froette raves about).

    Having young adults back visiting in the house is sooo nice, so much easier than when they were little!  I haven’t had to move the blessed ‘Elf on the Shelf’ ONCE!  He’s just a decoration now.   =)

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    Strange thing going on with my right hand mentioned in passing yesterday let up enough today to enable putting together two loaves of port wine and bleu cheese bread.

    One the same as have made before, with chopped nuts in it (macadamia this time). The other will be an experiment, replacing the nuts with thinly sliced black olives. Half of each loaf to be gifted mañana.

    Think I overdid it as now the hand is acting up (but nowhere near what was going on Friday) so 86’d plans for cookies at this year’s Xmas.) May even resort to smurf gel and aspirin if the discomfort persists.

  30. 30.

    Another Scott

    @NotMax: Think hard about getting it looked at when you can.  No sense in toughing it out (and maybe making things worse) if it’s something that modern medicine can address and alleviate.

    :-)

    Good luck!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    @Another Scott

    Pretty much certain it’s a result of sleeping on it in an odd position which, along with colder overnight weather settling in, aggravated already extant arthritis.

    If Friday discombobulation was measured at 100% today would be at maybe 30%.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    @Scout211

    No inflammation, no swelling, no discoloration. On Friday could barely grasp and lift a mug of coffee and any movement sent out red alert twinges.

    As said above, today is much, much better. Just used it a little too much for a little too long. I’m really not overly concerned provided can muster the discipline to pace myself for a few days.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    @zhena gogolia

    Fortunate enough to have seen Sim on stage in a London revival of the 19th century farce Dandy Dick.

    Coincidentally enough, when I was there at Christmastime.

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